if an engineer, who designed the B52, would have imagined, in their wildest dreams, that the B52 would still be a major weapon of war over 50 years after it was built?
I don't know that I'd call it a 'major weapon of war' these days, more counterinsurgency.
Feed them to the pigs, eat the pigs.
I wonder if that would work for cane toads?
My guess would be either the pigs would be poisoned by the cane toads or their meat would become poisonous.
Australian animals aren't dangerous, just scary. More Australians are killed in horseback riding accidents per year (~30) than are killed by wild animals (~10).
Australians are just knowledgeable enough to stay the fuck away from them, that doesn't mean they aren't dangerous.
Box jellies, blue ring octopus and a snake whose toxin is especially nasty to primates. Me, I stay away from Aussie, its obvious that it never wanted humans in the first place!
Nope; because of metric expansion, objects whose light we are now receiving can be further away than the product of the speed of light and the age of the universe.
So in the US they have imperial expansion? Of course, that explains a lot!
I only want the mod that disables reporting to external entities. Real safety features can stay in.
you might want just that mod but maybe you are or are not aware of the safety features that were compromised by the mod. At that point who is liable? Is it the (possibly anonymous) authors of the mod or the person who applied them to the car?
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In Soviet Russia car fines you!
It seems to me like he handled it a bit badly. Constitutionally, the federal government is not allowed to take private property for public use without just compensation.
wait, isn't that what they are doing with fines?? Taking private property (money) for public use (paying for policing) without just compensation.
Uhm, you know that US imports most of its consumer goods?
That means that the US also need to export things to have a healthy trade balance, otherwise the economy will go in the crapper (even more so than it is).
The US has been running a trade deficient since 1980's and if foreign countries stop buying US made products it's going to be a huge problem financially. In March the US trade deficit was a staggering $40 billion. See http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade for current and historical data on the US trade.
In other words, saying that "the US is not particularly dependent on foreign trade" is patently wrong.
The USA 'exports' 'intellectual property' problems to the rest of the world.
if you rooted your car and installed something like 'Cyanogenmod for cars' which unlocked some features like exceeding the speed limit... and then sat there reading the newspaper...
Considering how quite a bit of money is stowed in the general area, and not from the poor people of this planet, turning off access to those accounts from the US just might cause a few owners of senators to prod their whores.
I guess the Bahamas could do some discrete 'lobbying'; "hey mr US Senator you wouldn't want this secret bank account coming out would you, what with elections coming up and all that?"
Look at the cost of collecting fares and the percentage of the cost of the service that fares actually provide. When taken in conjunction with the fact that the poorest people often have the highest cost of transport (live furthest away) there is a very strong argument that you should just forget about collecting fares at all and make the service a free for all. Just pay for it out of consolidated revenue or another "distributive" tax.
When I was in a certain 3rd world country, which shall remain nameless, I found that a router at the National Datacenter had snmp public exposed to the world. It was interesting to find that it had ports named for all the ISPs in the country and a mirror port carrying lots of data, the volume of which corresponded to the sum of all the ISP's ports... and all these ISPs routes went through that National Datacenter.
Also SNMPv3 is very poorly supported by many monitoring tools.
I sometimes wonder if SNMPv3 is *deliberately* made awkward and easy to misconfigure, somewhat like IPSEC...
Why is this guy still called a General, he's a fucking politician already, a political appointee and from his spintalk he's learning the DC shuffle pretty well. A real general would lead his troops into battle and kill the fucking enemy, not continually spy on the citizens or trample on the constitution he's sworn to protect. You have soliders to fight wars, not play political games and trying to color everything with spintalk.
If you are in the USA then he is, in effect, a politician as are all your Generals. Until the corporates get enough leverage to be able to neutralise these Generals and replace them as your de-facto politicians.
I like the way the linked page uses Web 2.0 when it means scalability.
Great job with the buzzwords.
You know, I was just going to let this go, chalked up as random Internet stranger being an asshat, but seriously. Are you SO bored or jealous of other people's achievements that you have nothing better to do than to sit around and nitpick the friggin' ad copy of a marketing page that was undoubtedly written not just for people who want to know the technical specifications of the product, but common usage applications for it also? What you're calling a "buzzword" is information that business wonks need to know when faced with the question, "Will this solve my problem/fulfill my needs?"
When you develop your own database system, you can write your own ad copy to say whatever you want it to. Or if you prefer, apply for a job at Postgres as their chief marketing guru, and if they're dumb enough to hire you, you can write its ad copy to be purely technical-oriented until the product is completely irrelevant in an actual production environment. ("Now for OS/2 Warp and BeOS!") Otherwise, forgive me if I don't put much weight into your opinion on the matter over the people who have written a kick-ass enterprise-quality system that is pretty much given away for free.
Seriously, what exactly are you implying by your comment, that PostgreSQL isn't a capable database system? That they just use buzzwords instead of actual technical brainpower and muscle as the basis of their software? Because I can tell you that to people who architect, engineer, administer, and eat database systems for breakfast, you are sadly off-base here, and this comment comes off as extremely pompous and ignorant.
What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
